The Golden Globes for film and television were announced Thursday, confirming that awards season is upon us.

Although the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that hands them out, is regarded as a joke whose votes are easily influenced, their awards are taken somewhat seriously by studios, which use them as a marketing and promotional tool. | Dec. 13, 2012»Read Full Blog Post(1)

Going to Knicks games with Peter Falk, sitting in the aged Groucho Marx's parlor listening to him sing "Hooray for Captain Spaulding," eyeing naked women in Off-Broadway plays — Kipp Friedman had quite an adolescence, thanks to the big macher who made it all happen.

The Milwaukee Common Council's Licenses Committee on Tuesday approved a food dealer license and a Class B tavern license for Nehring's Sendik's on Downer, a new grocery store that will also include a sit-down bar that will serve pizza, pasta and other foods.

John and Anne Nehring operate three other grocery stores: Nehring's Sendik's, at 4027 N. Oakland Ave., Shorewood; G. Groppi Food Market, at 1441 E. Russell Ave. in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood; and Nehring's Family Market, at the Milwaukee Public Market in the Historic Third Ward. | Oct. 1, 2013»Read Full Article(6)

Watch the new trailer for "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," below.

The film by Peter Jackson, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's popular classic, stars Martin Freeman as Bilbo, Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Cate Blanchett as Galadriel and Orlando Bloom as Legolas. Benedict Cumberbatch is the voice of Smaug. | Oct. 1, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Jazz band the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is featured in the documentary "Brothers Hypnotic," screening tonight at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Journal Sentinel photo by Bill Schulz.| Oct. 1, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

"Captain Phillips," the upcoming Tom Hanks film about Somali pirates, is a tense film about a fact-based event that ignores or pays lip service to the pirate's motives. | Oct. 1, 2013»Read Full Blog Post